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The AI Hardware Killer: How a 35B LLM Just Destroyed a DDR4 RAM Stick in 90 Minutes
A viral local AI experiment has sparked a surprising hardware debate after a user reported a DDR4 ECC memory stick failing roughly 90 minutes into running a 35B LLM for demanding database work. But did the AI actually destroy the RAM, or did the workload simply expose an aging component that was already on its way out?
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